Cellphone video of a brawl between two students at McDonogh 35 High School has been shared and liked on Twitter nearly 5,000 times since Wednesday.

Once the mother of one of the girls saw it, she became outraged after seeing a teacher punch her daughter while trying to stop the fight.

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Terri Hunter was surprised to see video of her eighth grade daughter fighting surface on Twitter, but what happened at the end that video has her angered and appalled.

"As I was looking at the video, I said wait the teacher is not only breaking up the fight but she hit my daughter on the side of her head," Hunter said.

Hunter said her daughter had been having problems with a fellow student on social media.

"From what she's been telling me, this child has been picking on her and trying to bully her for a few weeks now, so that's why I told her to go to somebody and tell them what's going on," she said.

She said her daughter spoke to a school administrator Tuesday, and both girls were called to the office separately. Later a fight broke out in the hallway. In the cellphone video, a teacher is seen trying to intervene, then that teacher draws her arm back and hits Hunter's daughter in the head.

"I know she was trying to break up the fight, but I don't think ever a teacher should hit a child," Hunter said. "I don't trust my child being in a class with her. She may try to do something else I don't know."

Her child was suspended for five days, but Hunter said the teacher needs more than a slap on the wrist.

"If I was hitting my child like that, then they would try to charge me with child abuse and everything else, but a teacher hits the child like that and it seems like nothing is going on."

Hunter said she will be asking for her daughter to be removed from the teacher's class and she has spoken to police about the incident. As far as what she thinks about her daughter fighting, she believes weeks of taunting may have provoked her child.

WDSU contacted the Orleans Parish School Board about the policies regarding physical contact by teachers. Superintendent Dr. Henderson Lewis said, "Both school officials and the Orleans Parish School Board took immediate action and an internal investigation is underway.

"A video of the incident has surfaced online, prompting serious implications for those involved. Safety within our schools is our highest priority, and it is the purpose of OPSB to operate schools in a manner that will provide for the well-being and safety of all students, faculty and staff."